Where in the policy is it forbidden to download from the Internet? I
actually looked for this before I packaged it:
terps...@orange:/usr/share/doc/debian-policy$ zgrep -i internet policy.txt.gz
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, RFCs 2045-2049) is a
terps...@orange:/usr/share/doc/debian-policy$ zgrep -i download policy.txt.gz
compiling from source don't have to download multiple packages.
a Debian package: anyone can download the `.deb' file and read the
The purpose of this package is to take the arch-specific files created
by the buildds and put them into an 'all' package suitable for use in
cross-compilation. When combined with emdebian, you can then easily
target any debian architecture from any other.
While I can understand that downloading files from the Internet at
large might be bad for other reasons, this package only downloads from
the debian archive itself. I could have packed all the
cross-compilation files into a 'source tarball' by manually extracting
them from the cross-built deb files, but I thought that it would be
rather dishonest to call these binary files the 'source'. The scripts
used to extract the files are the actual source.
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